tella received a long-lap penalty
in race two after being deemed at
fault for the original crash.
Only 17 riders finished, and
only 15 on the same lap as the
race winner.
In the 10-lap Superpole race,
Toprak was challenged by
Bulega for a short while, but he
soon repassed and set a new
race lap record of 1:35.500 on
lap three. Bulega ran off track
without too much consequence,
but he ended up 3.712 seconds
behind Razgatlioglu at the flag.
Alex Lowes was on his way
to another podium finish, and
his brother, Sam, crashed out,
guaranteeing a second bimota
podium.
The final race had the same
podium riders and finishing or
-
der as the first two races. Bulega
was again second and Alex
Lowes on that new bimota, third,
quadrupling bimota's podium
count for 2025 to four.
Rea, who was into the podium-
paying place for a while, finished
sixth, and Bautista climbed from
14th to fourth. Michael van der
Mark had a determined Sunday,
walking away with two fifth
places.
In the championship, Razgatlio
-
glu's perfect weekend sees him
sitting on
469 points to Bulega's
430. His advantage in points over
Bulega is 39 with three rounds left.
WorldSSP
Can Oncu (Yamaha bLU cRU
Evan Bros Racing) smashed in
a new track best of 1:39.442 to
take the WorldSSP pole, with
three Yamaha R9s on the front
row of the grid.
Oncu and his season-long rival
for the title, Stefano Manzi (Ten
Kate Racing Yamaha), scrapped
it out in the opening race after
they scooted off from a four-
rider R9 group, which included
eventual fourth-placed rider
Lucas Mahias (GMT94-Yamaha).
Mahias had been third but got
pinged with a three-second pen
-
alty for cutting a corner. Stand-in
rider
Alberto Surra (Yamaha bLU
cRU Evan Bros Team) was thus a
surprise podium visitor.
In race two, an almost sure-fire
win for Oncu was gradually turned
into a last-lap Manzi victory for the
second time in two days.
Manzi won by 0.554 seconds,
but by eons in terms of his
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Stefano Manzi (62) dealt a
psychological hammer blow to
Can Oncu (61) with two come-
from-behind wins in WorldSSP.
